13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet,
I would have been asleep;
Then I would have been at rest

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13 For now I would be lying down(A) in peace;
    I would be asleep and at rest(B)

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11 His bones are full of (A)his youthful vigor,
(B)But it will lie down with him in the dust.

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11 The youthful vigor(A) that fills his bones(B)
    will lie with him in the dust.(C)

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(A)All things come alike to all:

One event happens to the righteous and the wicked;
To the [a]good, the clean, and the unclean;
To him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice.
As is the good, so is the sinner;
He who takes an oath as he who fears an oath.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:2 LXX, Syr., Vg. good and bad,

All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[a] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.

As it is with the good,
    so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
    so with those who are afraid to take them.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint (Aquila), Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew does not have and the bad.